... they want their meme back.

We hear the same tiring rant over and over again, and this is really becoming OLD. Plain and simple, in that case, this is bollocks. I've run every version of KDE since v. 1, and anytime there was improvements, whiners have complained they were too broke to afford the required computing power. Then, don't use it and be done with it !

But what's more, since KDE 4.5, this rant is completely delusional. I use daily a 2008 eeepc 900A (Atom powered low-end netbook w/ 1GB RAM and Intel graphics), with Fedora 13, KDE 4.5 (composite display enabled with bells and whistles), and libreoffice. This is my bread-and-butter computer. The speed of KDE is already perfectly adequate even if slowed down by the lousy 8GB SSD of the machine. All the graphics effects just work. And this from a computer that wouldn't be able to run Microsoft Aero effects.

You don't like KDE : fine. But stop smearing it for imaginary defects produced only by your incapacity to configure it properly.

Really, you nailed this one fair and square.

I sorta agree Daniel Craig is a passable Bond. At least, the stories improved considerably; but I don't really find him very expressive as an actor. But it's already way better than the Moore - Dalton - Brosnan tenure.

... who is at least faithful to the novels' main character as depicted by Flemming, and it's Lazenby.

All other are showman ruining splendid, dark, brutal stories, and turning them into a Hollywood sanitized farce.

And co-starring in this movie is Diana Rigg, making it by far the best Bond ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_%28film%29

There's no Burger King in France since 1997.

I laughed my ass off. 'nuff said.

Case in point, why on earth then, did they dropped the minimize / maximize button ? Oh, yeah... sorry to speak about consistency, everybody should know by now that consistency isn't part of Gnome's roadmap. I'm not arguing that things should be kept around forever by default, neither do I think things must change for the sake of changing. What I want is the freedom to decide what I want to keep, and what i want to drop, and the way it's displayed. Easy enough. KDE, for all its shortcomings, does that very well. You have personalities, pagers, as much buttons as you like in title bars, wherever you like, arranged as you want them to be ordered, and you can suit your keyboard shortcuts to your needs. Stuff that, Gnome.

The biggest trouble I have with gnome is the designers constant push to force me using my computer their way 'for my own good'. No, sorry, I won't, thank you very much. I've used almost every other GUI / desktop manager around, none has tried so constantly to take away my freedom to organize the way I want to work. To add insult to injury, Gnome color schemes and icon design always seem to lag 10 years behind current fashion. Gnome reminds me of my childhood in the cold war era. Although I was born in western europe, it feels like soviets are rolling their tank divisions through my computer. You wait months in a line waiting for next release, just to hear : 'there's no more resize button, get away, and if you're not happy, praise tell me, comrade, why would you need one ? Didn't you know resize buttons are antisocial ?'. And you end up living in a concrete shack, decorated by shades of gray, praising the vision of the komintern. Just say no.

If you're thinking about the one I'm thinking, the answer is definitely YES, It's an old fashioned steamy pile of shit, face it and be a man about it. Wishful thinking and head burying in the sand won't change this. Neither will shouting while pounding with your little pink fists on your keyboard like a baby being weaned.

Linuxconf is what introduced me to the 'immutable' attribute of ext2fs. After being bitten a couple of time with a reset of my soundcard parameters (specific ones at that, it was an IBM laptop with strange all-in-one video+sound chip), I sought a solution, and I finally chattr'ed the config file to +i. End of the problem.

So in a way, I'm grateful to linuxconf for enticing me into learning more deeper and arcane knowledge of linux. But that's about all I found it useful for.

Linuxconf is what introduced me to the 'immutable' attribute of ext2fs. After being bitten a couple of time with a reset of my soundcard parameters (specific ones at that, it was an IBM laptop with strange all-in-one video+sound chip), I sought a solution, and I finally chattr'ed the config file to +i. End of the problem.

You saved me the hassle of torturing english to say the same thing, albeit with lot of spelling and grammar atrocities intermixed.

... is definitely Jeremy Bentham, in my book (if you're not in the know, go straight to the "auto-icon" section of the article).

I'm not so sure, but as I previously told I don't deal with US laws. The reason I have trouble to admit your opinion is because it's akin to what romans used to call a probatio diabolicum, that is to say an impossible proof to bring. The usual judiciary way to deal with such proofs is to gather evidence that the situation is abnormal - abrupt termination of service - and the given reason is too general to be satisfactory - 'breach of TOS' without specific motivation. Then the burden of proof is shifted on the shoulders of the defendant who is the only one in position to bring the proof to the court.

As of your first statement, it certainly depends upon it is considered a statutory question or a common law one, but I have no clue to answer that.

... but I have formal training in law science, and just because everyone here seems to think contract law applies, I would like to know if there are no other grounds to file such a suit upon. Namely, I personally wouldn't go the contract way, I'd rather fight on an undue and abrupt discriminatory situation. Going out of contract law in favor of a more general civil tort (is that the name ?).

I think it would be possible to prove that while a majority of person have equal access to the service, having one's account terminated for no apparent reason is a breach of equality of rights. That would leave the burden of the proof on FB shoulders to actually prove this breach of equality wasn't unlawful and based upon objective reasons.

Admittedly, this is just an hypothesis.